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I Suffer From Chronic Pain

Just An Average Nobody, Pain Included.

By: lagomorpha
Written on January 28th, 2013
Just an average nobody with your typical chronic, heavy back pain due to disc herniation, hemophilia and and chronic hip pain from a fracture/accident a couple years ago.

However, This all happened before the age of 22.
Now I can't work, and barley have the motivation to do much. I bet you get a lot of lame young folk whining about back pain and looking for sympathy, well add another to that list.
I am broke, broken, and in pain, SSI doesn't wanna accept me because I have only been injured a bit under a couple of years and haven't worked long enough to build up my pay rate or some crap.

Thanks for being here to let me ramble,

Io

P.S. If you have something to say, hateful or loving, I'm here!
By: lagomorpha
Age: 22-25
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  • notmytime
    notmytime

    I just have to say, you are too damn young to have to deal with a life of pain. I'm 37 and have suffered from chronic pain (CRPS) for the last 2 years. I'm sorry that you had to start so young. Just remember, even if every day is a fight, you still have to fight. Who knows, one day, it may change for the better.

    Jan 28
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    • lagomorpha
      lagomorpha

      For sure. Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it and hope some day for the both of us things change for the better, ANY age is too damn young to deal with a life of pain. no one deserves it..
      I would get a lumbar operation or some cortisone injections if I could, but they don't do that to people with Hemophilia. way to big of risks, even with clotting factor apparently.

      Jan 28
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    • notmytime
      notmytime

      All of that and hemophilia? You already have a trifecta, I suggest you stop tallying up and quit collecting pains! :) But at least the brain still works. I have tried to keep moving forward, keep the brain going, once you stop there, it makes it hard to get it back.

      Jan 28
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    • lagomorpha
      lagomorpha

      For sure, I try and hard I try. Brain-wise, I have also had really debilitating OCD since I was a child. I think this is the worst of my pain, but it's not technically physical, though it may feel that way often times.

      Jan 29
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    • notmytime
      notmytime

      I have worked with OCD kids, that's a hard one. Are you on meds? The anti-anxiety ones usually work well I think.

      Jan 29
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    • lagomorpha
      lagomorpha

      For sure.....No fun at all. Not to mention a lotta people think OCD is a joke or something. For the OCD I am on 200mg Zoloft and it doesn't really help, and Temazepam in relation to the OCD (sleep).

      What do you mean worked with them, like as co-workers, or are you a social worker or something?

      Jan 30
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    • notmytime
      notmytime

      I worked as a behavioral therapist for children. My son has ADHD and several children in his school have OCD. I am also going to school to become a speech language pathologist, so OCD is something that I have some experience with. Are yours both emotional and physical manifestations? Do you ever get to "turn it off"?

      Jan 30
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    • lagomorpha
      lagomorpha

      Right on, that is amazing! Behavioral therapists are the best! Does your sun go to a school for children with disabilities, or just happens to have many obsessive compulsive peers! Mine are indeed both emotional and physical. really hard, and Nope, I don't really get any breaks from it, I'm trying to work it down/ away though.

      Jan 30
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